nora jane LEGAL NAME: Nora Jane Stevens. AGE & DATE OF BIRTH: 24, April 3, 1987. BIRTH PLACE/HOMETOWN: Silver Spring, Md, Surf City, NJ. OCCUPATION:: Associate Producer SNY. CURRENT RESIDENCE: Manhattan, NY. MARITAL STATUS: Engaged. FAMILY: Father - Sean Stevens, former defenseman for the NJ Devils and Washington Capitals. Mother - Patricia Wright-Stevens, stay at home mom and baker extraordinaire. Brother - John Stevens, college junior and major computer geek via MIT. Sister - Nina, high school sophomore and general pain in the ass. facts • Her favorite sweater is Trevor Linden’s 32 for the NY Islanders • She’s terrified of heights. • She’s insanely close to her father and they meet during Isles/Devils games at the Rock • Owns every Ryan Adams record and prefers vinyl over digital. • Her favorite food is her father’s firehouse chili • She would marry Jonathan Safran Foer if she could • She has "we are many" tattooed along her left side/ribs storylines Geof -- Her fiance and best friend. They dated for a year before work split them. They have recently gotten back together and Geof wasted no time in proposing. Cris -- The two once spent the night together and have since been the closest of friends. Andy -- The two dated briefly before Andy had a sexual crisis. They are great friends and Nora would do anything for him. Lee -- Lee is Lee. Hockey buddy, complicated friendship. She cares for him deeply. occ PLAYED BY: Dianna Agron. JOURNAL & AIM: Nora Jane TIMEZONE: EST. WRITING: 3RDP. Thread Only. Customs

biography Nora Jane was named for her maternal grandmother who could dance the polka like no one’s business and died when Patricia Wright-Stevens was six months pregnant. They had known they were having a baby girl and when her last breath was exhaled, Patricia decided. Since Sean Stevens spent the majority of the year in and out of the home, he agreed with most of Patricia’s decisions (or agreed to most of her demands). Despite the lunacy of having a hockey-playing dad, Nora grew up in a happy home. When she saw her parents together, it was easy to tell they were in love. Patricia doted, ice sore knuckles after fight night at the rink, and helped Sean keep track of his teeth. Sean made more than a decent living and kept the entire family alight in a lifestyle that allowed his wife to simply be with their children. Nora was born in Holy Cross Hospital inSilver Springs, Maryland on Easter Sunday. She lived in a predominantly Jewish community until she turned five (her brother just turned one) when her father was traded to New Jersey at the deadline in ’93. Patricia had refused to move at first. Her knowledge of New Jersey centered on what most people knew. The span of the New Jersey Turnpike from the Meadowlands exit 16W to Newark Airport - factories, smog, tractor trailers, and Ikea. She wasn’t going to live in a rat-infested state and no one could make her. So, Sean didn’t try. They rode out the season barely seeing each other and hoping the free agent market would be kind to them. It turned out that the biggest kindness was offered from New Jersey, who wanted Sean in a bad way. It was too much to turn down and Sean took his family to Barnegat Light, a small island community to break it to them. As it turned out, he chose the right spot. Patricia fell in love with Long Beach Island and talked her husband into settling somewhere on the island. Surf City was far enough from the weekly summer tourists, but close enough to the Causeway to make getting on and off the island easy. Nora grew up two blocks from Barnegat Bay and two blocks from the Atlantic. She spent summers in the ocean and winters on the ice. Her father taught her to lace her skates before she could even tie her shoes and every fall, she waited for that first pre-season game just so she could smell the ice at the Meadowlands. She grew up around hockey and hockey players and when she was nine, playing on her midget team on the ice at the Continental Airlines Arena between periods, Trevor Linden (then a NY Islander) gave her stick handling advice that actually led to a right light. She never forgot it and from that day forward, she rooted for the New York Islanders (except for when they played her dad). Growing up, she never missed a game, whether she got to watch it on television or listen to it on the radio. She went to every home game that she could get to it, regardless if her father was playing or not. Her best friend in high school was a girl whose father coached the school hockey club. She was pretty good friends with her coach, too, even if he was a Rangers fan. He encouraged her to read every hockey book she could get her hands on and by the time she was a senior in high school, she was the sports editor for the school paper and was heading to Hofstra University to study Journalism. Right out of the gate, she took advantage of the student discounts at Nassau Coliseum and applied for non-paid internship for photography. She lived, ate, and breathed sports, but especially hockey. In her senior year, she interned at SNY. She was hired six months after graduation and on the cusp of her twenty-fourth birthday became an associate producer for Geico SportsNite. She’s had stints on Islanders pre-game shows. Currently, Nora lives in a studio apartment in the East Village, though she sometimes feels she lives on the train. She’s a workaholic and only socializes when colleagues force her out. She doesn’t feel she’s missing anything, though. She is doing exactly what she wants and she doesn’t want anything messing with that. Her parents still live on Long Beach Island and she sees them often. Her father never quite “forgave” her for becoming and Islanders fan, but he couldn’t more proud of her.